"and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon."

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Source : Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.58, A&C Black

Madeline Miller

#Moon Quotes #Light Quotes #Skins Quotes

“Perhaps, after all, there is something in the theory that only the ultra-busy can find time for everything.”

Source : James Agate (1946). “A Shorter Ego: Ego 4, Ego 5, Ego 6”
“I'm always down to do a sitcom. I did 'That '80s Show' back in the day and that was a really great experience.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good.”
“Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.”
“I'm really out of touch with myself emotionally. I've always had a hard time talking about how I feel.”
“The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and the lands grow distant in your sight, one journeying to heaven, one that falls; and leave you, not at home in either one, not quite so still and dark as the darkened houses, not calling to eternity with the passion of what becomes a star each night, and rises; and leave you (inexpressibly to unravel) your life, with its immensity and fear, so that, now bounded, now immeasurable it is alternately stone in you and star.”
“Also Ho Chi Minh City is broken up into districts so it's much like little cities within the city, in your home district folks take the time to smile and wave as you pass by or even try to have a little chat.”

Source : Source: www.expatarrivals.com
“The Lord commands the wife to be submissive. Refusal to submit to the husband is therefore rebellion against God Himself. Submission to the husband is a test of her love for God as well as a test of love for her husband. The wife then must look upon her submission to her husband as an act of obedience to Christ and not merely to her husband.”

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